Showing results for: Climate Change (page 211)
Trump’s zeal to deregulate may lead to a robber baron era
Jeremi Suri
EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt is an unabashed ally of the fossil fuels industry his agency is supposed to regulate
Paris, Oxford to ban fuel-burning cars, U.S. to do nothing
Jarrett Lyons
But even as those cities stand up, the U.S. remains steadfast in its dependence on fossil fuels
Not even Scott Pruitt can save the coal industry from itself
Amanda Marcotte
Coal is yesterday's energy source. But for Trump and Pruitt, it's another symbolic issue causing real-world damage
At least 15 dead, 150 missing from fires in Northern California
Charlie May
Rapidly-spreading fires through Northern California have led to evacuation of thousands; president remains mum
We are two emotional nations at war
Todd Gitlin
Antagonism flourishes, but it comes in different flavors
Columbus Day: Not a day of hope for the environment
Jeremy Lent
The Columbus mindset is the same one that is driving our global civilization toward environmental catastrophe
The case for de-extincting Ice Age megafauna
Katherine DM Clover
Humans helped kill off the giant animals of the Ice Age. We owe it to the ecosystem to restore what we destroyed
Better call Becerra: The planet’s lawyer
Nathanael Johnson
California's attorney general, Xavier Becerra, plans to keep the Trump administration tangled up in the courts
Dear Elon Musk: Your dazzling Mars plan overlooks some big nontechnical hurdles
Andrew Maynard
Travel to Mars may come sooner than you think, but questions and complications are numerous
6 reasons post-Maria Puerto Rico could be Katrina-like
Grist Staff
Here are six factors that contribute to making the current disaster in Puerto Rico especially dire
Why people around the world fear climate change more than Americans do
Gregory J. Carbone
Americans tend to rely on their political leanings while others are more scientifically-savvy about climate change
The enormous cost of more nuclear weapons
Guy T. Saperstein, Kelsey Abkin
Is the expansion of our nuclear arsenal in America's best interest, or is it just Trump's latest boastful display?
James Inhofe blames “sanctuary cities” for Las Vegas shooting
Charlie May
Inhofe says Congress can't do anything to prevent gun violence in America and instead blames "permissiveness"
Vulture capitalists circle above Puerto Rico
Bill Moyers
Bill talks with anthropologist Yarimar Bonilla about the challenges Puerto Ricans face in the wake of the storm
Oxfam savages Trump on his “continued failure” to help Puerto Rico
Rachel Leah
Oxfam doesn't normally get involved with "wealthy countries," but Trump's slow response has forced its hand
Americans rate their worst fears in new national survey
Steven Rosenfeld
Fatal diseases, yes. Life-changing violence, yes. But plane crashes over gun violence?
Want to fail at online dating? Be a grammar snob
Marty Kaplan
Universal competence in the use of apostrophes would be nice, but it won't heal the world's problems
How many big storms before people abandon coastal cities?
Reynard Loki
For homeowners in flood zones, one big question looms: Rebuild or retreat after another "500-year storm?"
Facts don’t matter to Americans, and we should be worried
R. Kelly Garrett
There’s a lot of variation in how Americans decide what to believe
Welcome to the Romance Resistance
Rachel Kramer Bussel
The Trump Effect on book sales isn't reaching all genres. Women are buying even more romance novels now
The privilege of being triggered: YA author Tiffany Jackson tackles real-life in page-turning novels
Emily Jordan
Dead babies and the foster care system are some of the topics in Jackson's page-turning stories
Public School, Inc.: When public education turns into big business
Yoohyun Jun
As the need for high test scores grew, a teacher saw himself becoming a cog in the machine of big business
Rush Limbaugh: NFL protests are a conspiracy to destroy “masculinity”
Charlie May
Limbaugh says that the left "wants to cause great damage to the NFL" in order to rob our nation of its ruggedness
In Trump’s America, is the Supreme Court still seen as legitimate?
Michael Nelson, Eric Plutzer, Michael Berkman
Leaders take it as their duty to accept the Supreme Court's decisions, but will our political climate change that?
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